Virtual ZMT Alumni Conference: Submit your abstracts now!
15/12/2020 | Abstract submission is open for ZMT's virtual alumni conference on Data management and collaboration for tackling marine challenges.Taking place from March 16 - 17, 2021 the event is dedicated to the exchange of ideas on data management and to...
Apply now for the DAAD Doctoral Scholarship with ZMT
14/12/2020 | With the kind support of the DAAD Graduate Scholarship Program, ZMT is able to announce two doctoral scholarships on the topic of "Adaptation of marine socio-ecological systems to changing environmental conditions", which will start in the autumn...
IUCN mangrove experts caution against mass planting: Mangrove ecologist Martin Zimmer explains the background
04/12/2020 | Although global efforts to protect mangroves as well as reforestation projects have achieved some success, and worldwide rates of loss have dropped from one to two percent to below 0.2% per year over the past three decades, researchers from the...
Virtual Conference ‘Ocean Governance: Action insights and foreshadowing challenges’ on 19 and 20 November 2020
30/11/2020 | On 19 and 20 November 2020, the closing conference of European COST Action ‘Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science’ took place under the motto ‘Ocean Governance: Action insights and foreshadowing...
New common scientific framework to help research into coral bleaching
27/11/2020 | Increasing coral bleaching events worldwide are causing growing concerns among scientists. An international consortium of researchers with participation of the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) has now developed the first common...
New study finds that mangroves support over 4 million small scale fishers globally
18/11/2020 | Mangrove forests support millions of coastal fishers, and a new study has not only highlighted this importance but mapped how this fishing is spread around the world. World-wide, 38% of all small-scale fishers in over 100 countries fish in the...
Science Slam-Talks with ZMT researchers: About tomato fish, citizen particiation and biofilms
09/11/2020 | As part of the "Year of Science 2020/2021 - Bioeconomy", the Haus der Wissenschaft in Braunschweig organises monthly science slam talks. In the fourth edition of the series, four scientists will meet on Thursday, 12 November 2020, at 6 p.m. in the...
Unpredictable coral reefs of the Anthropocene
02/11/2020 | Coral reefs under high levels of human influence react unpredictably to environmental stress. This was discovered by an international team of reef researchers led by the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) using a comprehensive data...
15 years House of Science in Bremen
27/10/2020 | On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, the Bremen House of Science is staging an exhibition presenting its origins and history as well as its sponsors, including the ZMT. "Old House - New Knowledge: Well over 15 years of the House of Science" is the...
ZMT postdoc retreat: How to get ahead in (German) academia
23/10/2020 | The annual Postdoc Retreat already become a tradition at ZMT. Due to the measure undertaken as a result of Corona pandemic the retreat took in a virtual space rather than a face-to face encounter away from the office. On the first day, the up to 12...